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Writer of whimsy and monsters 🎃✨ She/her Cat mom 🐈🐈‍⬛ Poker gf ♥️🃏 Seeker and giver of kind words 💜🖤🩶 Please 🚫DMs 🙏 #WritingCommunity Rylan.rafferty.org

Playing with spiders, a novel by Rylan Rafferty, won an honorable mention in the 2025 page one prize contest by gutsy great novelist
Susie Dent @susie_dent l love the old markers of time. To go with 'fortnight' (fourteen nights), English once had the lovely 'sennight' (seven nights) for a week, too. 'Yestreen' meant 'last evening, 'ere-yesterday' was the day before yesterday, and 'overmorrow' the day after tomorrow.
Lucy Huber @clhubes Men writing women characters: She was beautiful but didn't know it. She was 5'7 and 101 pounds. Her feet were size 3. Her hat size was Infant. She'd never thrown up, even once. Her periods lasted 45 minutes. Her top was see-through.
C.G. Drews @PaperFury "you're not like the other girls," the boy said. "oh actually most of us are like this," the girl said comfortably as she shifted back to her true dragon form and ate him.
the_whimsical_muse writes: Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
A raccoon gazes thoughtfully at a rainbow. “There is no trash can't There is only trash CAN!”
@TaraWineQueen writes: I identify with Frankenstein's monster because I, too, am: - Intellectually curious - Held together by a thread - Seeking love and affection - Interested in burning down the homes of those who have betrayed me - Scared by my own reflection - Better in theory than real life
@MerriamWebster writes It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with. The idea that it should be avoided came from writers who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.
50 Nerds of Grey • The Fourth Way Ijust discovered ominous positivity and I'm obsessed. -You will be fine you have no choice. -Everything will turn out okay you cannot stop it. -You will succeed it's inevitable. -Better days are already coming it's too late now.
"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will." Stephen King
Title: Planet Break Room. In the distance, a woman stands in front of a drab, snowy city at night. Behind her, a pond reflects a magical wonderland. Superimposed in the sky, a man's eyes stare ominously.